Acker Bilk
Taste Of Honey
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AMG Review of Taste Of Honey
Bruce Eder
All Music GuideA Taste of Honey was Acker Bilk's follow-up album to Stranger on the Shore, and it opens up on a languid, beguilingly lyrical note, the clarinetist turning in a hauntingly beautiful performance on the title track -- most familiar as a light jazz piece or a soft ock & roll number for The Beatles (or the basis for an excruciatingly funny parody by Allan Sherman, as "A Waste of Money"), Acker Bilk turns "A Taste of Honey" into an enveloping mood piece. The record seldom slackens -- "Underneath the Arches" and "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair" are a little weak, but otherwise this is at least as fine an album as its predecessor (perhaps a little better recorded), and in contrast to that album, there are hardly any arrangements of raditional tunes here. From the bright and bouncy "Fancy Pants" to the reflective "Only You" and "Blue Derby," the record moves from strength to strength, filled with surprises in its seemingly serene surroundings.
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